John M. Berrien

John Macpherson Berrien (23 August 1781-1 January 1856) was a US Senator from Georgia (W) from 4 March 1825 to 9 March 1829 (succeeding John Elliott and preceding John Forsyth) and from 4 March 1841 to 28 May 1852 (succeeding Wilson Lumpkin and preceding Robert M. Charlton), as well as US Attorney General from 9 March 1829 to 22 June 1831 (succeeding William Wirt and preceding Roger B. Taney).

Biography
John Macpherson Berrien was born in Rocky Hill, New Jersey in 1781, and he moved with his parents to Savannah, Georgia a year later. He became a lawyer in 1799, and he served as a judge and a captain of US Army hussars during the War of 1812. He served in the Georgia Senate from 1822 to 1823, and he was elected as a Jacksonian to the US Senate in 1825, serving until 1829, when he became Attorney General in President Andrew Jackson's administration. He returned to the Senate from 1841 to 1852, this time as a Whig. He died in 1856.